Pulse 87

[JerseyDude]

Is Los Angeles a dance town? When I think of Dance Music in the United States, I think of New York City and Chicago.

[MarcR]

Is Los Angeles a dance town? When I think of Dance Music in the United States, I think of New York City and Chicago.

 Considering how well CHR/Rhythmic KISS-FM performs in that market, I think you can make the case that LA should be every bit as amenable to a current dance station as NYC.

[sfradio]

Is Los Angeles a dance town? When I think of Dance Music in the United States, I think of New York City and Chicago.

what about san francisco and miami?

[JerseyDude]

Kiss FM Los Angeles sounds Top 40/Mainstream to me. There is no Dance music on that station. It's a typical CC CHR station.

[JerseyDude]

The 4 or 5 Dance tunes thrown onto Power 96/Miami's playlist works for them. The Pure Dance station (with a full signal) Miami had a few years back didn't do well. I know some people said the station's owners didn't hire many DJs and the music didn't work well for that market. 

Dont know much about the San Francisco market. Cant comment on that.

[JayD]

Miami's pure dance station played the same washed up trance vocals over and over and over... its no wonder it didnt do well. Theres awesome dance music out there.. theres hasnt been a station to showcase the music yet...

[sfradio]

Miami's pure dance station played the same washed up trance vocals over and over and over... its no wonder it didnt do well. Theres awesome dance music out there.. theres hasnt been a station to showcase the music yet...

every pure dance channel is going to do that, the energy in sf, phoenix and this new pulse is going to do that, the format gets tired after a while

[Nick]

I can listen to Party 105, z88.9, iPartyRadio.com, and other dance stations all day and hear few repeats. The station has to have a wide playlist, yet play the hits often.

[Jeffrey]

Miami's pure dance station played the same washed up trance vocals over and over and over... its no wonder it didnt do well. Theres awesome dance music out there.. theres hasnt been a station to showcase the music yet...

every pure dance channel is going to do that, the energy in sf, phoenix and this new pulse is going to do that, the format gets tired after a while

Pulse won't be playing simply washed up trance vocals. The station is dance oriented. Dance music covers a huge range of music. The format gets tired when programmed poorly. I have yet to hear a good dance station in the US. although C89.5 out of Seattle is probably the best in this country.
I think that with good personality and of course some music to appeal to the masses Pulse will have a good life span. There is buzz around this station and that's huge.
Dance music and stations work well in Europe but if you listen to them they spice it up a bit and that is what I hope Pulse 87 will do!

[JohnParker]

Party in Miami pulled decent numbers before the ownership felt that they needed to switch to get bigger numbers playing rock.  Well that worked out real well for them didn't it. 

Miami is also the #1 Market for sales of "Electronica" albums according to the Soundscan Index rating.  The index rating indicates how well a genre sells within that market as compared to the national average.  "Electronica" covers all of dance for the purposes of Soundscan.

San Francisco has a rich history in dance music.  From the Dance Oriented Rock days to the days of West Coast Freestyle right up to todays House scene.  Energy does very well there.

Los Angeles is also a spot where dance music has worked before but it probably would have to be a very Pop dance driven station to work in todays enviorment.  Groove radio while not a major success did have a nice following.  Also when 103.1 played dance they did ok.  KIIS does not play dance music and hasn't for sometime now.

jp